How many guest can a park hold?

I remember years and years ago hearing that the CP average attendance was in the 30s. Anyone know anything recent?

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Heres a new question to add to the mix: Which park would you say gets sold out most often. I'd say knotts cause of halloween haunt. The event sells out just about every friday and saturday night after the first weekend, and the rest are still crowded beyond disneyland summer saturdays. They use 5 Entrances for the event, so that shows quite a lot, I'd say Knotts can handle near 40,000, because there are so many exits (well over a dozen).

According to Ken Gilliam, Fire Chief, city of Sandusky's Fire Department, "Cedar Point Amusement Park...adds 30,000 - 50,000 visitors per day to the population of the City during the summer season."

Wow, I think he is right, for Sandusky is crowded during the summer months.

http://www.ci.sandusky.oh.us/Fire/home.htm

Im not really sure about the maxium capacity of most parks but I do remember that a few years ago on the 4th of july at disney world I remember that they hit max capacity. They were turning away anyone that took a car and slowly lettin the resort guest in. It was so crowded. The worst was trying to get a good spot for the epcot illuminations show. All the good spots were taken with about 4 hours til the show started. The nice think was that they stayed open til around one that night and the place cleared pretty well around 11 or 12.

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Coastersrz, the PKI lot can hold a max of 50,000 people or cars, I cant remember which. I was told that by my old sup. But the highest attendance I was to witness at PKI was close to 70,000 and they had signs out saying that the park was full to capacity. Now if it was or wasnt, I am not sure but thats what the marquee and a sign by the entrance said.

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I remember , I was at Sixflags Great Adventure in 1998, for spring break, and I wanted to get on The Chiller so bad, and my family, and I waited 4hrs inline to not even get tickets! I was so upset, we drove 1hr to go right back home another 1hr after waiting 4hrs inline for nothing. Darn if that happened at my current age..... I would have got into that park, I was just new to the whole amusment park thing back then, and younger, I never even checked if they where closed. All I remember hearning my mother telling me was that she went to the ticket booths, and they said they where not allowed to sale anymore tickets due to capicty, and a special event, but if we wanted we could wait there all day untill they can sale each person a ticket, then go to the next section, and wait at the metal detectors, untill they let a person into the park after a certan amont left the park. To this day I still do-not know why we couldent get into the park, but I know that if I ever get a higher up job at a amusment park, which I will aim for, I will make sure guest do-not have to wait over 30mins in-line for tickets, and if the park is closed due to capicty issues , give the people already waiting a two-day ticket for the inconvienance, and have the parking lot closed!, and if there is not enough staffing , I would personaly go out to the lines, and hand out the tickets for free, when we went that day, they did not closed the parking lot, but let cars into pay the parking fee, but then turned them down once at the gates. That makes me so mad.

What sometimes pisses me off (and relates to your post) is how, at a local mall, with something called smarte park (from smarte cart). It tells you which level has how many spaces left. Well, we went on a busy friday night, the 1st level had about 300 spaces, the 2nd 400, the 3rd 300, and then the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th lots were completely full as the digital signs read full. Guess what the first 3 levels were for. Valet parking! What a damn scam. And guess what, they were still letting hundreds of cars in the lot. Now, if they were smart and opened the valet levels, don't they know they'd make money. Sometimes people are so stupid. That was the last time i went to that mall. BTW, it is the Grove, and the place is much like Disneyland, but its a mall. They even have streetcars that run up and down the mall. All the stores were multi level too, even the apple store.

A lot of places release their yearly attendance figures. Divide that by # of days open and get an AVERAGE attendance. Of course Saturdays will offset this but working in an admissions dept. I know that Sat. usually has about 4-5 times weekdays and Sun. has about 2 times week day.

Well thanks to a buddy of mine that owns a resturant at SFoGA, I know their Max Cap is 55,000 but only hit that on a few days in the year (4th of July, Halloween, Labor Day, and Memorial Day), but they suck and still add guests even after max cap, but that has only been in the last 2 years since they brought in Superman, Deja Vu and Acrophobia.

The overall figures for this years show an avaerage of 35,000 ppd, for this most recent season.

And for Speedy just FYI Halloween Horror Nights at IOA sold out every single day this year, and on some days it was sold out before they even opened the park (which on saturdays they didn't open till 2pm but stayed open to 2am)

Every night you say? Anyways, if they were open from 2pm-2am, they didn't recieve two sets of visitors each day.

Does any one know the record for SFDL attendance?

Disneyland's capacity is technically 75K. I know that they have had close to 98K in here a few times (not fun days to work on, let me tell you). Now, when they expect large crowds (usually only happens on New Years, 4th of July, Xmas) the fire dept. will come out and close the gates if necessary.

I think CP's 2001 Closing Day had to be one of their top record days in history. They had people parking on the causway, grass, extra parking lots, etc. Even the HUGE midways seemed like a sidewalk that day!! Man, was there a lot of people. I also think PKI had to be close to a 2001 record their closing weekend. Both those time in Ohio the weather was PERFECT 70' and sunny compared to a normal time of 35' and wet snow.

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35,000 per day? Average everyday for SFoG throughout the season? That'd just be insane. I've seen 30+ days at PKD, which meant hour plus waits even for Hurler & Grizzly, Anaconda, everything there that usually has a line, had a line for the line. It can be crowded even with signifigantly less folks around.

I'm thinking I'd hate to see a group reaching 55,000 at SFoG, much less more. Did those guys take the bus or what?

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heraldvanyel said:
Well thanks to a buddy of mine that owns a resturant at SFoGA, I know their Max Cap is 55,000 but only hit that on a few days in the year (4th of July, Halloween, Labor Day, and Memorial Day), but they suck and still add guests even after max cap, but that has only been in the last 2 years since they brought in Superman, Deja Vu and Acrophobia.

The overall figures for this years show an avaerage of 35,000 ppd, for this most recent season.

SFOG doesn't average 35,000 people a day. There yearly attendance is below 3 million so they couldn't average 35,000 people a day otherwise they would have an attendance of over 3.5 million per year.

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I agree. SFOG only gets 30k+ on quite busy days. therwise it is several yousand below that.

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heraldvanyel said:
Well thanks to a buddy of mine that owns a resturant at SFoGA, I know their Max Cap is 55,000 but only hit that on a few days in the year (4th of July, Halloween, Labor Day, and Memorial Day), but they suck and still add guests even after max cap, but that has only been in the last 2 years since they brought in Superman, Deja Vu and Acrophobia.

The overall figures for this years show an avaerage of 35,000 ppd, for this most recent season.

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You were given "disinformation." Part of my job at the park (toward the end of the season) was to record attendence into the company's reporting system every hour. I can tell you our maximum capacity (not cummulative) is in the low 30s at any given moment, and obviously we average much lower than that per day. The park does not let guests in past this capacity (as it is the fire marshal who sets it); rather, they have to turn guests away at the gate, and that did not happen at all this season or last.

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RollerCoasterGod said:
I also think PKI had to be close to a 2001 record their closing weekend. Both those time in Ohio the weather was PERFECT 70' and sunny compared to a normal time of 35' and wet snow.

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The weather helped out, but they decided to boost attendence by having some craft fair thing in rivertown that whole weekend. People could bring rent tables and sell stuff. I think there were 50K+ those two days, which really sucked because the park had reduced the remaining food inventory so we didn't have stuff they we had to get rid of and we were running out of everything by mid saturday with another day to go. Sysco (food distributors) was sending trucks of crap for us cause we would have been screwed.

PKI had 62,000 daily attendance on Bring A Friend Free Day, they put out a sign saying it'd be better to come on another day. They didn't turn anyone away though. I am guessing there were 50,000+ in at a time.

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A bit off topic, but does anyone know what date that PKI bring-a-friend-free day was?

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